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Author: Douglas Scott Fletcher
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs a company changes it experiences stages of growth and that what worked in the past may be no longer effective. Managers may be required to juggle organizational evolution without abdicating control of the company. This model is derived from the author's understanding of these tensions.
Author: Rodolphe Durand
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2006-04-25
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 1847878083
DOWNLOAD EBOOK`I have no doubt this book will be read and used time and again by any scholar working within the evolutionary approach to organizations. I believe that it will also be of great interest to strategy scholars′ - Management `Rodolphe Durand has a compelling message for the growing community of evolutionary researchers in organization studies. Evolutionary researchers need to attend more carefully to historical and contemporary debates in the biological sciences if they are to avoid false tracks and simplisitic analogies. Durand offers here the foundations of a distinctive and authentic evolutionary theory that takes organizations seriously for what they are′ - Richard Whittington, Oxford University `This book fills an important gap in the study of organizations and strategy from an evolutionary perspective. It offers a synthetic approach to evolutionary analysis with grounded empirical examples that graduate students and seasoned scholars alike will find immensely useful. Durand′s OES model, rooted in a critical examination of philosophical and scientific writings on evolution, is particularly promising and provides a valuable guidepost for future research on organizations and strategic management′ - Michael Lounsbury, University of Alberta How is economic evolutionary theory, in which organisations evolve according to environmental selection, reconciled with evidence of strategic management? This book is the first of its kind to propose a solution to this theoretical puzzle and engage readers in a balanced understanding of organizational evolution. Rodolphe Durand embarks upon a fresh assessment of the literature. His discoveries provide the foundation for a new theory of organizational selection and an organizational evolution and strategy model that reconciles economic evolution with strategic intentionality. Chapters include an examination of the work by Lamarck, Darwin and Spencer; a constructive appraisal of evolutionary theory applied to organisations and a summary of how the organizational evolution and strategy model will affect future theory and research.
Author: Jitendra V. Singh
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Published: 1990-07
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the last decade, the prominent approach in organization theory has moved from an emphasis on adaptive change in organizations to an increasingly influential selection approach to studying organizational change. This volume addresses organizational evolution by examining the process of continual change within organizations, including founding, disbanding, growth and change. Drawn from a broad theoretical base, the chapters provide the most current evolutionary thinking about organizations from a variety of fields.
Author: Howard E. Aldrich
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2020-03-28
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 1788970284
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOrganizations Evolving offers a unique theoretical framework for understanding organizational emergence, persistence, change and decline. This updated and revised third edition presents an evolutionary view that provides a unified understanding of modern organizations and organization theory.
Author: Joel A. C. Baum
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 518
ISBN-13: 0195085841
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHis text presents the latest research and theory about evolutionary change in organizations. It brings together the work of organizational theorists who have challenged the orthodox adaptation views that prevailed until the beginning of the 1980s. It emphasizes multiple levels of change distinguishing change at the intraorganizational level, the organizational level, the population level, and the community level. The book is organized in a way intended to give order and coherence to what has been a diverse and multidisciplinary field. (The book had its inception at a conference held at the Stern School of Business, New York University, January 1992.).
Author: Malizia, Pierfranco
Publisher: IGI Global
Published: 2017-01-05
Total Pages: 533
ISBN-13: 152251984X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContinuous improvements in business operations have allowed companies more opportunities to grow and expand. This not only leads to higher success in increasing day-to-day profits, but it enhances overall organizational productivity. Evolution of the Post-Bureaucratic Organization is a pivotal source of research containing integrated and consistent theoretical frameworks on post-bureaucratic organizations, multidisciplinary perspectives, and provides case studies related to the critical aspects of the emergence of post-bureaucratic organizations. Featuring extensive coverage across a range of relevant perspectives and topics, such as business ethics, organizational communication, and cultural perspectives, this book is ideally designed for scholars, PhD and post-graduate university students, managers, and practitioners.
Author: Jacob Morgan
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2014-08-25
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 1118877241
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThroughout the history of business employees had to adapt to managers and managers had to adapt to organizations. In the future this is reversed with managers and organizations adapting to employees. This means that in order to succeed and thrive organizations must rethink and challenge everything they know about work. The demographics of employees are changing and so are employee expectations, values, attitudes, and styles of working. Conventional management models must be replaced with leadership approaches adapted to the future employee. Organizations must also rethink their traditional structure, how they empower employees, and what they need to do to remain competitive in a rapidly changing world. This is a book about how employees of the future will work, how managers will lead, and what organizations of the future will look like. The Future of Work will help you: Stay ahead of the competition Create better leaders Tap into the freelancer economy Attract and retain top talent Rethink management Structure effective teams Embrace flexible work environments Adapt to the changing workforce Build the organization of the future And more The book features uncommon examples and easy to understand concepts which will challenge and inspire you to work differently.
Author: Howard E. Aldrich
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2020-03-27
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9781788970297
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOrganizations Evolving offers a unique theoretical framework for understanding organizational emergence, persistence, change and decline. This updated and revised third edition presents an evolutionary view that provides a unified understanding of modern organizations and organization theory.
Author: Rodolphe Durand
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2006-04-25
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 1446227111
DOWNLOAD EBOOK`I have no doubt this book will be read and used time and again by any scholar working within the evolutionary approach to organizations. I believe that it will also be of great interest to strategy scholars' - Management `Rodolphe Durand has a compelling message for the growing community of evolutionary researchers in organization studies. Evolutionary researchers need to attend more carefully to historical and contemporary debates in the biological sciences if they are to avoid false tracks and simplisitic analogies. Durand offers here the foundations of a distinctive and authentic evolutionary theory that takes organizations seriously for what they are' - Richard Whittington, Oxford University `This book fills an important gap in the study of organizations and strategy from an evolutionary perspective. It offers a synthetic approach to evolutionary analysis with grounded empirical examples that graduate students and seasoned scholars alike will find immensely useful. Durand's OES model, rooted in a critical examination of philosophical and scientific writings on evolution, is particularly promising and provides a valuable guidepost for future research on organizations and strategic management' - Michael Lounsbury, University of Alberta How is economic evolutionary theory, in which organisations evolve according to environmental selection, reconciled with evidence of strategic management? This book is the first of its kind to propose a solution to this theoretical puzzle and engage readers in a balanced understanding of organizational evolution. Rodolphe Durand embarks upon a fresh assessment of the literature. His discoveries provide the foundation for a new theory of organizational selection and an organizational evolution and strategy model that reconciles economic evolution with strategic intentionality. Chapters include an examination of the work by Lamarck, Darwin and Spencer; a constructive appraisal of evolutionary theory applied to organisations and a summary of how the organizational evolution and strategy model will affect future theory and research. - An associated web site with further information can be found at: http://studies.hec.fr/web/durand
Author: Jan Achterbergh
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781315695228
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Organizational change projects often fail, as they are notoriously difficult to design and control. This text gives readers an understanding of organizational structures, and presents a new and easy-to-understand framework which describes the three dimensions of organizational interventions. The authors provide practical guidelines to show how interventions can be designed and controlled, and draw on international case studies to illustrate their story.This textbook will be suitable for postgraduate students of organizational development, design and change, and practitioners carrying out organizational development projects."--Provided by publisher.
